For more than 30 years, Superchunk has made its wild, tuneful racket, hitching blistering guitar mayhem to graceful pop melodies. The band took a break in the aughts but has since caught a second wind, cranking out rollicking records that are imbued with wisdom.
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Jon Wurster :: Transmissions
This week on Transmissions, Jon Wurster, the drummer of Mountain Goats, Bob Mould Band, and Superchunk and one-half of Scharpling and Wurster, the long running radio comedy duo as featured on The Best Show. In his wide-ranging talk with Jason Woodbury, he discusses growing up in Philadelphia during the birth of punk and alternative rock, working with Replacements producer Jim Dickinson in the mid-’80s, his experiences at Sun Records, getting the call to join Superchunk, and much more.
Laura Ballance :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Superchunk’s What a Time To Be Alive kicks off with a charging rush. “There’s a crooked line that runs through every crease in this map,” singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan seethes, singing over a frenzied “Running on Empty” beat […]
Unbelievable Things: The Story Of Superchunk’s Indoor Living
Superchunk’s 6th full-length Indoor Living is a beautiful and difficult record, one riddled with the anxiety of a vital, effervescent group beginning to fully wrestle with the inherent conflicts of productive adulthood juxtaposed against the rudderless life of a […]
AD Presents :: Superchunk/Vaselines @ Henry Fonda Theater
We are giving away some pairs of tickets to AD readers. Hit us up below in the comments with your name and email to enter. Winners notified via email….tix avail night of show at will-call […]
Superchunk :: Majesty Shredding
When Portishead released Third in 2008, it had been nearly a decade since the release of their previous album. That’s a lifetime in the music industry and all sorts of questions arise when it happens: […]
Superchunk :: Leaves In The Gutter
Really, could there be a better moment for new Superchunk sounds than during the 20th anniversary of the record label they founded? Not hardly. But it’s also been over seven years since the last release of any new […]
Superchunk :: Foolish (Merge Records 1994)
Even with the most nebulously named of genres, there are still artists that leap to mind as vanguards and progenitors of the sound and image of that style. When it comes to the muddled mess […]
Win Butler/Mac McCaughan :: The AD Interviews
Arcade Fire and Superchunk just played the Obama rally in North Carolina. Aquarium Drunkard was there. Below, J. Neas speaks with both Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Superchunk/ Merge Records founder Mac McCaughan about the show, the campaign, politics and the […]